How animals and people express emotions, and what this tells us about our ancestry.
Reviews: Science
Book review: ‘The Seabird’s Cry’ by Adam Nicolson
The lives of puffins, gannets, and other ocean voyagers.
Book review: ‘Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species’ by Sabina Radeva
Darwin’s theory of evolution by means of natural selection explained for young children.
Book review: ‘Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants’ by Ken Thompson
Darwin’s botany today.
Book review: ‘Unnatural Selection’ by Katrina van Grouw
Art meets science in this stunningly illustrated book.
Book review: ‘The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being’ by Alice Roberts
Evolution and the making of us.
Book review: ‘The Ascent of John Tyndall’ by Roland Jackson
Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual.
Book review: ‘The Flamingo’s Smile’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Reflections in natural history.
Book review: ‘Improbable Destinies’ by Jonathan Losos
How predictable is evolution?
Book review: ‘Teaching a Stone to Talk’ by Annie Dillard
An eclectic mix of science, nature and memoir.